{"id":50262,"date":"2019-10-28T17:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/?page_id=50262"},"modified":"2021-08-31T17:48:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T15:48:39","slug":"campus-carnot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/en\/ucly\/our-institution\/ucly-campuses\/campus-carnot\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Carnot"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The origin of the Place Carnot Campus<\/h2><div class=\"wp-block-text-image\">\n  <div class=\"row align-bottom collapse\">\n    <div class=\"column small-12 medium-6 xlarge-5 xxlarge-expand wp-block-text-image-info js-fade-scroll\">\n      <p class=\"wp-block-text-image-title\">1831: A barracks<\/p>\n      <div class=\"wp-block-text-image-intro\"><p>Built in 1831 in the square formerly known as Place Napol\u00e9on (now Place Carnot), the Bissuel Barracks came into being as the result of a private initiative.<br \/>\nAt that time, officers in Lyon needed somewhere to store their equipment and stable their horses.<br \/>\nBut the Army lacked the funds for such an undertaking. However, the interested parties raised the money required to construct the building and provided it as a loan. The architect Jean-Prosper Bissuel, who was approached both to design the building and to act as a nominee, also played his part by agreeing to defer his fees.<br \/>\nTen years later, in 1841, the government acquired the barracks and reimbursed the generous benefactors.<br \/>\nThe architect\u2019s risk paid off, as he received his fees.<br \/>\nThe barracks, although officially renamed &#8220;Caserne royale&#8221;, would continue to bear his name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"column small-12 medium-6 xlarge-7 xxlarge-shrink wp-block-text-image-picture js-fade-scroll\">\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/caserne-carnot-ok.jpg\" class=\"attachment-text_image size-text_image\" alt=\"C\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/caserne-carnot-ok.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/caserne-carnot-ok-100x65.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div><p>A few years later, in 1875, Louis-Gabriel Bissuel de Saint-Victor, a former member of parliament, joined around thirty local lay people to found a Catholic University. Its first faculty devoted to law opened near Place Bellecour, a stone's throw away from the barracks.This is the origin of the current Catholic University of Lyon whose second campus has been built on the site of the barracks since September 2005. The architect and the deputy belonged to the same family. Thus, from the beginning, the two establishments were already singularly linked by the name and the goodwill of their founders.<br><br><br><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-text-image\">\n  <div class=\"row align-bottom collapse\">\n    <div class=\"column small-12 medium-6 xlarge-5 xxlarge-expand wp-block-text-image-info js-fade-scroll\">\n      <p class=\"wp-block-text-image-title\">2005: A university campus<\/p>\n      <div class=\"wp-block-text-image-intro\"><p>In the early 1990s, the increase in courses and student numbers forced UCLy to consider opening a second campus to complement the one on Place Bellecour.<\/p>\n<p>Deserted since 1992, the Bissuel Barracks, which until then had housed the headquarters of the General Staff of the Fifth Military Region, attracted the attention of the Rector at the time, Monsignor Christian Ponson. Its strategic location near Perrache railway station and Place Bellecour made it the ideal spot. Thus began the UCLy\/Carnot Bissuel project which culminated in the opening of the campus in 2005.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"column small-12 medium-6 xlarge-7 xxlarge-shrink wp-block-text-image-picture js-fade-scroll\">\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/campus-actuel.png\" class=\"attachment-text_image size-text_image\" alt=\"Campus Carnot UCLy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/campus-actuel.png 500w, https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/campus-actuel-97x65.png 97w, https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/campus-actuel-450x300.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A modern building of 14,000 m2 on five floors <\/h2><p>The Carnot campus houses:<\/p><p>\u2022 The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/en\/our-poles\/philosophy-and-human-sciences\/\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty of Philosophy, Pyschology and Education<\/a> (Department of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, Department of Education, UNIVA and CEPEC)<br>\u2022 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/en\/our-poles\/modern-languages-literature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Faculty of Literature and Languages<\/a><a aria-label=\"Letters and Languages  (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/l-ucly\/nos-ecoles\/pole-lettres-et-langues\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>(Department of French Literature, ESTRI, UCLy Cambridge Examination Centre, UCLy Tourism School and ILCF)<br>\u2022 An information resource centre and several research laboratories<br>\u2022 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/en\/our-poles\/theology-religious-sciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences<\/a> (Department of Theology and IPER)<br>\u2022 A university library<br>\u2022 7 amphitheatres (up to 340 seats)<br>\u2022 41 classrooms, 2 language labs, 1 exam room with 100 seats, a cafeteria and student facilities .<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-button js-fade-scroll\">\n\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/l-ucly\/nos-campus\/campus-carnot\/visite-virtuelle-du-campus-carnot\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Virtual tour of Campus Carnot\" class=\"button primary\">Virtual tour of Campus Carnot<\/a>\n\n  <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origin of the Place Carnot CampusA few years later, in 1875, Louis-Gabriel Bissuel de Saint-Victor, a former member of parliament, joined around thirty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2453,"parent":50249,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50262","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Campus Carnot - UCLy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover the origin of Place Carnot Campus: from Barracks to University. 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